The Associated Press is reporting that 9 out of 10 eligible Afghanis turned out to register to vote.
First tallies since the eight-month registration drive began winding down on Saturday show that 8.7 million of an estimated 9.8 million eligible voters have collected ID cards for the Oct. 9 election. Forty-one percent of those registered were women.
Except only two-thirds of 1.05 million voters in five southern provinces have turned out to vote. This year’s heated election will have U.S. figures up but probably not this high.
